Language:
English
Year of publication:
2013
Titel der Quelle:
Journal for the Study of Antisemitism
Angaben zur Quelle:
5,1 (2013) 63-91
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
Abstract:
Antisemitism is on rise in the post-9/11 world, and university campuses may serve as a mirror of this process; however, it has not been sufficiently researched up to this time. Analyzes the results of surveys conducted at the University of Osnabrück, northern Germany, in 2012-13, and at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, in January 2013. 796 students took part in the study in Canada, and 1,004 in Germany. The questions of the survey aimed to assess levels of classic antisemitism (using pre-Holocaust clichés and stereotypes), as well as of secondary antisemitism (i.e. antisemitism "not in spite of, but because of the Holocaust"). Only 1,062 of the 1,800 respondents disagreed strongly with classic antisemitic attitudes; the rest, ca. 40%, endorsed either partially or fully antisemitic statements. Only 670 students disagreed strongly with secondary antisemitism, while ca. 60% blamed Jews, in some way, for maintaining Holocaust memory. Surveys that attest to an ambient racist and antisemitic climate on the campuses call into question the role of universities as protectors of a pluralist society.
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